On 7/24/2005 4:40 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:
>Hi !
>
>On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 07:04 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
>
>
>>>The Sleepycat license is that if you don't have total source
>>>(essentially GPL) then you pay Sleepycat a fee
>>>
>>>
>>>Personally I'd recommend an approach where you have an option
>>>
>>>
>>There is no such option. JE is a dead end. We do not pass along additional
>>restrictions beyond the ALv2 (which means essentially no restrictions).
>>
>>
>
>I think that the best thing to do is validate backends without
>delivering them. There is no issue if you do that. Let's use JDBM as a
>kind of RI, bundled with the ApacheDS package, and let others use
>whatever they want, assuming they will donwload those backends and deal
>with IP issues by themselves.
>
>So we can work with JE, validate that ApacheDS works well with it, using
>an abstraction layer above it, avoiding licenses problem, and tell the
>community : "ApacheDS works well and is fully tested against JE, up to
>you to download JE" (or wathever DB).
>
>
+1 Great idea.
Regards,
Alan